Adjusted to 2014 dollars: The median U.S. household income in 2005 was $56,154, with families spending 25.5% of their income on public university ($14,310 sticker price, annually) or 61.5% on private university ($34,549 sticker price, annually).

Also in 2005...

The first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 take place

Pope John Paul II dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him